Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing

“Shoot for the top, always. You know you'll never make it, but what's the fun if you don't shoot for the top?”

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“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

“You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.”

“Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.”

“A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.”

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